6900k or 6850K for new PC

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 10:38

I get that and do appreciate it, and I have also thanked everyone for taking the time to respond to my thread.

The end of the day words can sometimes be misinterpreted, and the tone of them mistaken. In my view I have seen some of the posts as out of order, specifically the ones that mentioned my nan in a way that I found was sarcastic. When a family member is lost recently things can be a bit raw.

but as you can see, I am taking everyones advice and I am going for the 6700, see above your post

b4z · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:19

Midian said:
And to be honest I do not have to justify any decision I make to you, If I want to spend £245 more of my own money on something I will do mate. I do not see how it affects you.

haha... you mean if you want to spend(waste) £245 more of your own money for no reason at all.
I mean that attitude right there, summarises this thread in a nutshell.
People are providing you with advice based on evidence, and an opportunity to save money, and that is your response.

There have been some great suggestions in this thread and I appreciate them all, but if I was to do every single one of them I would have about 7 cases, 6 CPU,s Ect,

Nonsense, everyone has been pointing you towards a similar sort of build path (for very good reason) with some good suggestions around a nice case for the aforementioned reasons.

My build has changed quite a bit and I am happy, apparantly you are not, but that is life.

Your build has only changed because of the advice of people on this forum, who are you so ready to berate and get offended by.
Lets not forget your build is now cheaper and just as good for gaming because of that advice.
I mean how dare we provide evidence and try to convince you to SAVE money whilst getting the SAME performance!

As a final note, there are other parts of your build that need adjusting but its a seemingly uphill and fruitless exercise to try and convince you otherwise.
Maybe others will have some (patience and) luck!

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:25

B4Z, That is fine mate, I am not getting into it anymore it is just not helpful.

My build is now this, and I never at any point said I came to this conclusion by myself.

Case: Undecided

CPU: 6700k

Motherboard: Maximus VIII Formula

RAM: 16gb G.Skill Trident Z

PSU: EVGA Supernova 1000

GPU: SLI MSI Geforce gtx 1080 Seahawk X (AIO watercooled)

SSD (OS): Samsung 256GB SM961 M.2 SSD

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

OPTICAL DRIVE: Internal or External Blue-Ray & DVD (depends on case)

LIGHTS: NZXT Hue & RGB color changing dual channel internal led controller

OS: Windows 10

Artery · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:34

You could probably swap out the motherboard for a Maximus VIII Hero, pretty much does exactly the same as the Formula anyway. I only have an 850w EVGA G2 in my rig and I have 980ti in sli, I imagine 1080 will be more energy efficient so 850w should be enough but I guess 1000w will give you a little headroom.

Personally I wouldn't bother at all with an optical drive, you'll rarely use it these days and if so just get an external one.

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:36

Ok Some of things people have said in this thread and the way they have said it has offended me, there is nothing I can do about that.

But what I can do something about is my own actions, So I apologise to anyone who has taken offence to anything I have said.

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:40

Artery said:
You could probably swap out the motherboard for a Maximus VIII Hero, pretty much does exactly the same as the Formula anyway. I only have an 850w EVGA G2 in my rig and I have 980ti in sli, I imagine 1080 will be more energy efficient so 850w should be enough but I guess 1000w will give you a little headroom.

Personally I wouldn't bother at all with an optical drive, you'll rarely use it these days and if so just get an external one.

Ok will swap that out for the Hero, thanks for advice.

Sargatanas2511 · 20 Jul 2016 at 12:56

Midian said:
B4Z, That is fine mate, I am not getting into it anymore it is just not helpful.

My build is now this, and I never at any point said I came to this conclusion by myself.

Case: Undecided

CPU: 6700k

Motherboard: Maximus VIII Formula

RAM: 16gb G.Skill Trident Z

PSU: EVGA Supernova 1000

GPU: SLI MSI Geforce gtx 1080 Seahawk X (AIO watercooled)

SSD (OS): Samsung 256GB SM961 M.2 SSD

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

OPTICAL DRIVE: Internal or External Blue-Ray & DVD (depends on case)

LIGHTS: NZXT Hue & RGB color changing dual channel internal led controller

OS: Windows 10

You will obviously know better than me, but do you really need 2TB of fast storage as backup?

I would probably save money, put 2 500GB evo's in RAID 0 and get a 3-4TB backup drive. As I said though, you will know your needs more than I do.

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 13:03

I think 2 Tb is more than enough to be honest, but I have been annoyed in the past when space has become an issue so figured I would make sure that did not happen this time.

Also I wont be taking the drives from this pc into that one as my wife will be using this machine.

Artery · 20 Jul 2016 at 13:08

I do think that'd probably be wiser, get a 2tb backup drive, maybe the ssd for the os and a 500gb ssd for your games. That'd save you another £300, if you feel you wanna get another ssd later on you could just get one then.

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 13:18

My current steam folder is 826gb currently it seems (with modded games)

I would also want a fast seperate drive for uplay/origin whatever with room to spare for anything else like some music or what not.

Morg · 20 Jul 2016 at 16:30

I think maybe swapping one of the ssds for a bigger nvme drive would be good. That'll be the fastest drive for the life of the motherboard and you can put another ssd in as and when required (less cables, price likely lower)

Morg · 20 Jul 2016 at 16:32

Also the external optical drive is a good idea (unless ofc you use them regularly). Again a couple less cables.

I considered the 6700k recently but thought the x99 platform and 5820k looked more interesting.

UltraSBM · 20 Jul 2016 at 17:14

Surely the only real reason for going X99 over Z170 is if you want to use SLI/XFire...?
Sure you can get more cores...but meh.

UltraSBM · 20 Jul 2016 at 17:37

GoogalyMoogaly said:
You went for the most expensive one, shocking...

Was this thread just to tell people you were getting a 6900K but phrased as a question?

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 17:54

I am not going for the 6900k

My build is currently-

Case: Undecided

CPU: 6700k

Motherboard: Maximus VIII Hero

RAM: 16gb G.Skill Trident Z

PSU: EVGA Supernova 1000

GPU: SLI MSI Geforce gtx 1080 Seahawk X (AIO watercooled)

SSD (OS): Samsung 256GB SM961 M.2 SSD

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

SSD: 1tb Samsung 850 Evo

OPTICAL DRIVE: Internal or External Blue-Ray & DVD (depends on case)

LIGHTS: NZXT Hue & RGB color changing dual channel internal led controller

OS: Windows 10

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 18:26

My wife really wants me to go for the Inwin 909 case and I am quite taken with it also as it looks pretty clean.

Definately going for the external Blu-Ray with that also.

Angilion · 20 Jul 2016 at 18:38

Midian said:
I think 2 Tb is more than enough to be honest, but I have been annoyed in the past when space has become an issue so figured I would make sure that did not happen this time.

I'd do the same myself. I had more than enough of running out of space decades ago, back when floppies were the norm and my PC had 2 5.25" FDD and a 40MB HDD. No typo - MB, not GB. It was bigger than a brick. Probably heavier too.

Hmm...I was idly looking to see how much a drive of that type (5.25" MFM) weighed. I've just seen that people collect them and they're selling for >£100. I think I still have it somewhere...

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 18:41

Yeah I don't think I want to change them, as I would definately rather have some head room.

Angilion · 20 Jul 2016 at 18:54

Midian said:
[..]
The place where I was thinking of getting the PC built did not have the 6700k as a choice in the configurator, I did mentioned that a few times.[..]

Configurators are usually very limited, even at a specialist component place with a wide range of components.

OcUK does have a wider building service, which you might find useful. If you contact them directly and speak to a person you can usually arrange for them to build a PC from any compatible collection of components and not just what's available on the configurator. It's an option if you want to choose exactly the components you want but not build it yourself (you've mentioned that you don't want to build it yourself).

Midian · 20 Jul 2016 at 18:56

Yeah I think OCuk is where I will end up going now, only reason I was using another place is that I had a few pcs from them in the past and they seemed to last ok, but those machines were nothing special anyway. So maybe things have worked out for the best.